... organization and landscaping of the entire site 5. play areas need to allow the children to create their own environment to some degree to allow for adventure and creative play 6. provide ambiguity to stimulate fantasy play, loose parts for creative and cognitive play, clear accomplishment points to reinforce development of self concept 7. provide a variety of small spaces, changes in level, changes in ... ...

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... not definitively determine if this was the case, but the article did call to attention the need for further study in this area. There seems to be a certain amount of ambiguity in the way this study was performed. Although it makes a convincing argument for the causes of student burnout, it may have left out other less obvious causes. III. Relating Previous ... ...

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... a moral component inherent in the concept that made it a difficult and an ambiguous thing for the Victorians themselves to attempt to define. Dickens, in the novel Great Expectations, exploits the ambiguity of the term gentleman. Then, as now, it would mean someone who behaved in a certain way (truthful, honest, considerate etc.). But, it also carried a sense of belonging to a separate class ... ...

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... not recuperated their lost fortunes. Most of Napoleon's men remained in place, as a reward for their symbolic submission to the king. The fate of Colonel Chabert's wife illustrates perfectly the ambiguity of the era: from street prostitute, she accessed the Empire's highest society thanks to her husband's military career. After the supposed death of her husband, she will marry the Count ... ...

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... authority to whom he answers but himself, and this is more than any one man can bear. The Absurdity of Evil - This novella is, above all, an exploration of hypocrisy, ambiguity, and moral confusion. It explodes the idea of the proverbial choice between the lesser of two evils. As the idealistic Marlow is forced to align himself with either the hypocritical ... ...

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... of today's society. A prime example being the preferred age of females at marriage, influenced by a more career-oriented female than in earlier times. It is also important to consider the ambiguity of the study, as it relies wholly on the opinions of the subjects involved, but does not allow them to express their preferences fully, as in the ranking of desirability ... ...

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... immorality of the relationship between Osmond and Madame Merle. Yet whether, as with the Touchetts, they are openly apart, or secretly together, there is a slight romanticism, even in the perverse ambiguity of Osmond. It is Isabel therefore, who appears the loneliest character in the novel, epitomized by the ellipse that occurs at the end, where it is simply stated that she ... ...

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... , uncomplicated meaning - that those in power and authority are always trying to control the rest of society in one way or another - and also a concept drawn from theoretical sociology. This ambiguity has spread confusion and incoherence in much recent writing on modern social history; while the fashionability of the new terminology has led some early modernists to introduce essentially superfluous and ... ...

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... enables groups to control the competing cliques and aspiring individuals of which they are composed: for through gossip, differences of opinion are fought out behind the scenes (through customary innuendo, ambiguity and conceit) so that outwardly a show of harmony and friendship can be maintained. Finally, gossip is a hallmark and a privilege, even a duty, of group membership. A group gossips, gossip is a property, and ... ...

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... to exactly what Austen's views regarding marriage and feminism were, and in many cases continues to do so today. In this essay I will attempt to clear up some of this ambiguity, while closely examining the idea of marriage itself, the nature of the "social contract", and the social and historical background to the idea of marriage as a social contract. In "The ... ...

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